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17 October 2010 Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4 Chapter 25 Text46

His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami sings Jaya Radha Madhava :

Jaya Radha Madhava Kunj-Bihari
Gopi-Jana-Vallabha, Giri-var dhari
Yasoda-Nandana, Braja-jana Ranjana
Yamuna-tira-vana-cari

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna Krishna, Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare.

Nitai Gaura Hari Haribol

Jaya Jaya Prabhupada

Jaya Om Visnu Pada Paramahamsa
Pariracarya astottara-sata Sri Srimad Abhay Caranavrnda Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada ki jaya
Ananta-koti Vaisnava vrnda ki jaya, Sri Sri Gaura Nitai ki jaya
Sri Sri Sita Rama Laxmana Hanuman ki jaya
Sri Sri Radha Rasa Bihari hi jaya
Grantha Raja Srimad Bhagvatam ki jaya
Sri Ramacandra Vijayotsava ki jaya
Gaura Premande Hari Haribol

All glories to the assembled devotees
All glories to the assembled devotees
All glories to the assembled devotees
All glories to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Nama om visnu-padaya krsna-prosthetic bhu-tale
Srimate bhaktivedanta-svamin iti namine
Namaste sarasvate deve gaura-vani-procaine
Nirvesesa-sunyavadi-pascatya-desa-tarine

Om namo Bhagvate Vasudevaya
Om namo Bhagvate Vasudevaya
Om namo Bhagvate Vasudevaya

SB 4th Canto, Chapter 25, The Characteristics of King Puranjana text 46.

Panca dvaras tu paurastya
Daksinaika tathottara
Pascime dve amusam te
Namani nrpa varnaye

SYNONYMS

Panca-five; dvarah-doors; tu-then; paurastyah-facing the eastern side;
daksina-southern; eka-one; tatha-also; uttara-one toward the north;
pascime-similarly, on the western side; dve-two; amusam-of them;te-unto you;namani-names; nrpa-O King; varnaye-I shall describe.

Translation by His Divine Grace Srila Praphupada

My dear King, of the nine doors, five led toward the eastern side, one led
toward the northern side, one led toward the southern side, and two ledtoward the western side.  I shall try to give the names of thesedifferent doors. Please repeat after me.

Purport by Srila Prabhupada

Of the seven doors on the surface – namely the two eyes, two ears,two nostrils and one mouth – five look forward, and these are describedas the doors facing the eastern side.  Since looking forward meansseeing the sun, these are described as the eastern gates, for the sunrises in the east.  The gate on the northern side and the gate on thesouthern side represent the two ears, and the two gates facing thewestern side represent the rectum and the genitals.  All the doors andgates are described below.

So Narada Muni is telling Kind Pracinabarhi about the city of nine gates,
where Puranjana was dwelling.  So who is Puranjana?  Puranjana is the
living entity and what is the city of the nine gates?  The human body.  The
human body has nine gates, nine doors, nine outlets for the senses tofunction. Those nine knowledge acquiring senses are two eyes, twonostrils, one mouth, two ears and anus and genitals.  These are thesenses through which Puranjana, the living entity tries to enjoy in thehuman body.  The consciousness tries to exploit the external materialnature through these nine gates in the human body.  These are allactually, these nine gates are not all the knowledge acquiring, someare knowledge and some are working.  Like rectum and genitals are theworking senses.  So the living entity is trying to enjoy in thismaterial nature in the human form, achieving the human body.  And thishas been very wonderfully described by Narada Muni and ultimatelyNarada Muni is leading to the ultimate goal of life.

Puranjana was trying to enjoy.  The living entity is trying to enjoyand the best possibility of enjoyment, the best kind of facilities forenjoyment is provided when?  In the human form of life.  When one getsthe human body, he gets the most wonderful opportunity to enjoy in thismaterial nature.  But at the same time he also gets an opportunity tofinish all his business in the material nature which is nothing but aprison house.  So Puranjana in his next life we will see that how hewill fullfil that goal of life.  In this life Puranjana was completelylost in his sense gratification.  In the city of nine gates he wastrying to enjoy as the lord and master with his queen.  As a king withhis queen.

Jai Sri Sri Gaura Nitai ki jaya
Jai Sri Sri Radha Ras Bihari ki jaya
Jai Sri Sri Sita Ram Laxman Hanuman ki jaya

And more elaborately this.this will be explained in the followingverses that’s what is forecast.  Narada Muni is telling KingPracinabarhi that how in the next few verses he will describe the namesof those gates and the names of those gates are actually synonymous tothe purpose and function of these gates.

So today also is Vijaya Dasami, which is also known as Rama Vijayautsava, it is also known as Daseraha, as Dushera.  And so today is theday we celebrate Ramacandra’s victory over Ravana.  Ramacandra is noneother than the Supreme Personality of Godhead.  Although inRamacandra’s pastimes we find that Ramacandra is not really revealingHis identity as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.  He is just actingas an ordinary person.  Say for example when Indra sent Him the chariotto fight with Ravana then Rama was directing Matali, the chariotdriver: “Go close to Ravana, go this way, go that way, and then Rama,Ramacandra felt very bad that. He is instructing the chariot driver ofIndra, who is a very exalted personality.  He is a chariot driver ofIndra.  So he apologized, he said please don’t mind I am directing you,I am commanding you, I’m instructing you. After all, you’re such anexalted personality, you’re the charioteer of Indra. So this is howRamacandra is performing His pastimes too.

Why does the Supreme Personality of Godhead come?  He comes toparitranaya sadhunam, vinasaya ca duskrtam, He comes to annihilate thedemons and protect His devotees.  And we can go back further, likeonce, Jaya and Vijaya, two gatekeepers desired to give the Lord achance to experience the mellow of chivalry.  The mellow of chivalrythe Lord cannot experience in Vaikuntha because in Vaikuntha no onefights with Him.  So Jaya and Vijaya felt that this is one mellow thatthe Lord is not experiencing.  It would be so nice if we could giveHim, if we could enable Him to experience the mellow of chivalry.  Andthen by the  arrangement of Yoga Maya all kinds of wonderful thingsstarted to happen!

Four Kumaras appeared at the gate of Vaikuntha and Jaya and Vijayaobstructed their entry because they appeared to be just like four lttlechildren wandering around naked.  And they felt that in this way youcannot enter Vaikuntha.  And this is no place for just some, just someloafing children.

So they stopped them and the four Kumaras became very upset and saidthat “You are not fit to remain in Vaikuntha.  You are not fit to bethe gate keepers of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.  So, you falldown and you take birth as human beings, you take birth in the earthplanet, the lower regions of the material nature.  And as a result ofthat, Jaya and Vijaya appeared in Satya Yuga as Hiranyaksa andHiranyakasipu, in Treta-yuga as Ravana and Kumbakharna and in DvaparaYuga they appeared as Sisupala and Dantavakra.

In this way, what did they do ?  They enabled the Lord to experiencethe mellow of chivalry.  What a terrible fight they gave to the Lord! And they appeared as demons!  Appearing as a demon, they caused so muchdistress to this world and to so many people.  Well, this is thearrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.  So, ultimately wehave to see that all this was happening by  the divine arrangements ofYoga Maya, in order to enhance the pastimes of the Supreme Personalityof Godhead.

Ravana, as you know, became extremely powerful with the boon of LordBrahma. Ravana performed severe austerities for ten years.  And aftercompletion of one year he would chop off one head and he would offer itinto the sacrificial fire.  For nine years he offered nine heads, atthe end of nine years of sacrifice and performing austerities.  Andthen on the tenth year, when Ravana was about to offer his tenth head,then Lord Brahma appeared.  Brahma asked Ravana, “Why are you doingthat?  Why are you performing such ghastly austerities? What do youwant ?” “Ravana said I want to become immortal.  Brahma reminded himthat he does not have the ability to grant immortality to anybody.  Inthis material nature, everyone, including himself is susceptible todeath!

Then, Ravana somehow got some benediction which was almost as beingimmortal. Ravana had a storage of nectar in his heart and as a resultof that he became almost immortal.  The boon he got was that if onehead was cut off, another head would reappear.  So by cutting his headno one would be able to kill him. And Ravana became extremelypowerful.  And he defeated, with this power he defeated.  The firstperson he defeated was his own half-brother, Kuvera.  Because Kuverawas occupying Lanka, which was actually designed for the Raksasas anddemons.

There were three original demons, Mali, Sumali and Malyavan.  Theywere residing in Lanka originally.  But then, when, by the influence ofthe Lord, they saw His inconceivable power, they ran away to the lowerregions.  And in the mean time, Kuvera, by performing austerities, hebecame very powerful.  He wanted to have the position of a dikhpala.Dikhpala, there are four dikhpalas : Varuna, Indra, [inaudible] and thefourth one is Kuvera. When Kuvera asked his father, Kulastha, where heshould live, then Kulastha said he should go and reside in Lanka. Kuvera started to reside in Lanka.

And in the mean time Brahma also asked Kuvera, “Kuvera, what do youwant”, after being satisfied with his performance of austerities.  So,Kuvera said I want to be one of the Dikpalas.  So, Brahma said :”Yes,there is a need for a fourth dikpala.  So, you become a dikhpala.  Inthis way, Kuvera became a dikpala and Kuvera was occupying Lanka.

So, when Ravana came back after acquiring such inconceivable powerand he was being instigated by Sumali.  You are our successor, you areour hope, so you go and occupy Lanka.  So Ravana was first reluctant,he said : “Well, Kuvera is my brother” How can I take it away from him.

But being induced by Sumali, Kuvera ultimately went and .  ThenKuvera said :”Look I received this place from my father, who is alsoyour father.  So, let us live together as brothers.  But Ravana said:”No, I want this whole place for myself.  And a fight ensued and inthat battle Kuvera was defeated.  So, Kuvera escaped from Lanka and hewent to Kailash to take shelter of Lord Shiva. Kuvera was also a greatdevotee of Lord Shiva.  So after that Ravana actually started toconquer the three worlds.  He went and attacked the heavenly planets. Indra had a tough time. He attacked all the big, big kings, but no onewas a match to Ravana.

Many kings, including Ramacandra’s forefather Anaranya, was killedby Ravana. And while dying Anarayana cursed him : “Your death will takeplace in my family. A great personality will appear in my dynasty andyou will die in his hands. So, then Ravana attacked Yamaraja.  AndRavana was giving Yamaraja a tough time.  Yamaraja’s soldiers weredefeated by Ravana.  Finally, Yamaraja came with his Yamadanda.  Thisyamadanda, the stick of Yamaraja. Whoever he touches with his yamadandahe is bound to die. Yama came with his yamadanda and he was about tokill Ravana. At that time Brahma came.  And he will not be killed inyour hand. I gave him a boon that he will not be killed by any demigod,he won’t be killed by any rakshasa, daitya, naga.  He is not going tobe killen by any of them.  Only Ravana forgot to ask the boon that hewill not be killed by human beings and animals. If you kill him, thenmy benediction that I gave him will be nullified, that will create aheavoc, that will create a disaster in the universal affairs.. Youdon’t kill him. And he assured him that the Lord will come in a humanform and He will be assisted by the animals like monkeys and bears. That is how he will be defeated. So, wait for some time. So Yamarajathen just disappeared from the battlefield.  And Ravana thought he evendefeated Yamaraja.

So in this way Ravana went conquering everybody. Ravana was alsocausing a lot of distress to the saintly people, the sages who wereperforming austerities. Ravana then appeared to Mount Kailash. He wasactually passing through Mount Kailash, and at that time Nandi told himthat no Lord Siva is sporting with Parvati and no-one should come hereat this time. So Ravana said,”Who cares for your Lord Siva, I decidewhat I do I do not accept any order from anybody else”. So in this wayRavana and Nandi had some disagreement and finally Ravana tried to liftthe mountain. He was so powerful that he could even lift Kailash, andwhen he did that, Parvati was sitting next to Lord Siva and Parvatilost her balance and she just held on to Lord Siva and she wassurprised what happened.

Lord Siva knew what happened. So with his toe he just pressed themountain top and it smashed Ravana’s hands. The twenty hands of Ravanawere smashed. He started to scream in pain, and then his ministers toldwhat actually happened and they said that start singing the glory ofLord Siva instead of screaming in pain. So Ravana who also is a veryaccomplished singer so he started to sing the glory of Lord Siva. AndLord Siva who is Asutosh who is very quickly pleased, he was pleased.Not only he released his pressure of his toe and let Ravana be relievedof his hands being pressed under the mountain but he was also was very,very pleased with Ravana.

And Ravana was causing all kinds of distresses, he was like anyother extremely materialistic person, he was very lusty, wherever hewould see any beautiful woman, he would just kidnap them and not onlythat he would kill the girl’s family members. In this way he took awaymany celestial damsels, many daughters of rsis and many daughters ofkings and in this way Ravana was married to many, many women, thousandsof women were there in his palace.

One day Ravana was flying with his pushpak vimana, and that also animportant thing to remember. When Ravana defeated Kuvera, this pushpakachariot belongs to Kuvera, so when Ravana defeated Kuvera, he took awaythe chariot, the chariot that could fly through the sky, with the speedof the mind and following the dictations of the driver, the person whois in the chariot.  And we can also see that it was not a small littlething, flying machine, it has an unlimited space also, this chariotcould assume any dimension according to the need. If one person wasdriving it was according to that space, but if twenty persons were onthe chariot it would expand, it would become bigger. Like for examplewhen Ramacandra wanted to go when He wanted to go to Ayodhya He wantedto take all the monkeys with Him, and all the monkeys fitted into thepushpaka vimana and then while He was flying over Kishkindha, Herecalled : ‘This is where the monkeys were and this is where we spentfour months of caturmasya, on the Rishamukha mountain, and when He wastelling that to Sita, then Sita desired that all the monkeys’ wivesshould also come to Ayodhya with Them. So Rama stopped the chariot andall the monkeys’ wives were also invited into the chariot and they allflew in, into Ayodhya.

So anyway when pushpak was flying above Himalayan mountain then onthe valley of the Himalayas, Ravana saw one extremely beautiful woman,was performing austerities all by herself.  So Ravana wanted to kidnapher. He went and asked, “Who are you?” So she identified herself asVedavati, a daughter of a king, who was actually performing austeritiesand became a sage and she wanted to have the Supreme Personality ofGodhead as her husband. And Ravana said, “Why the Supreme Personalityof Godhead? I am the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so you become mywife”. She said, “No, no the Supreme Personality of Godhead isNarayana, I want to be His wife.” When Ravana could not convince her,he tried to forcibly molest her. He grabbed her by her hair, butVedavati with her mystic power, she turned her hand into a sword andcut off her hair that Ravana was holding and she announced that nowwith your touch this body has become contaminated and with this body Ido not want to receive Narayana.  Saying that she entered into fire,she generated a fire from her body and she left her body. And whileleaving her body she said, “I will come back again and I will be thecause of your death.” And this Vedavati became Sita, Janaki, thedaughter of King Janaka.

In course of time, Janaki was married to Lord Ramacandra and therewas another arrangement of Yogamaya and as a result of that Ramacandrawas banished to the forest for 14 years. Ramacandra had to go to theforest for 14 years. After that intrigue, due to that intrigueRamacandra had to go to the forest and Ravana stole Sita, took her toLanka.

And then while searching for Sita, Ramacandra came across themonkeys in the Rishamukha mountain, and He made friends, He madealliance with the king of the monkeys, Sugriva, who was also bereft ofhis wife and banished by his brother who stole away his wife, Bali, sothen Rama actually killed Bali on behalf of Sugriva and made Sugrivathe king of the monkeys, and with that force, with the monkey soldiersRavana was attacked in Lanka by Lord Ramacandra. The battle continuedfor some time and Ravana was so convinced that this one human being,actually Ravana did not ask any immunity from any human beings when hewas asking for the boon from Brahma because in his eyes humans beingsare so insignificant, he never really thought much of the human beings.So he thought just two human beings and a bunch of monkeys what canthey do to me?

He made a big calculation, he failed to recognise this particularhuman being and His brother, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna.Vasudeva and Sankarsana appeared as Rama and Laksmana.  So there was anattack on Lanka and Ravana started to loose, Ravana who was defeatingeven the demigods, Indrajit, he took Indra as a captive and brought himto Lanka therefore he got the name Indrajit one who defeated Indra. And he was so powerful and he was also practically immortal.  AndKumbhakarna, another personality, he was so powerful.  And Ravana’sgenerals like Prahash, they all were such powerful personalities, theycould encounter with the demigods and defeat them.  But these two humanbeing started to annihilate Ravana’s entire army with a bunch ofmonkeys who did not have any weapons to fight with.  Ravana’s soldierswere equipped with the most sophisticated weapons which could actuallydeal with the demigods.  But here, these monkeys they did not even haveany sword or spears or arrows or bows. They were just fighting withuprooted trees and stones, bolders,big, big bolders. That’s whathappens when one acts for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, hebecomes empowered in the most wonderful ways.  They were empowered bythe Lord’s internal potency, the Lord’s spiritual potency.   They werejust throwing stones but those stones were more powerful than thethunder.  And they are killing the rakshasas in the thousands.  And ofcourse we have to also remember that these monkeys are not ordinarypersonalities.  Like for example Sugriva, when he went, when he sawRavana, after building the bridge to cross the ocean, they came untothe Subhala mountain and from there they could see Lanka from top. Hesaw Ravana observing the situation from the northern gate of Lanka.

And as soon as Sugriva saw that, Sugriva just jumped and he landedin front of Ravana and he gave him such a smack that Ravana’s crownwent flying and he started to real.   Ravana who is so powerful thatone smack of Sugriva almost made him  faint.  And of course Ravana gotback his composure.  And then theys started to fight, wrestle with eachother. And they fell onto the ground from the gate.  And Ravana sawthat Sugriva was more powerful, he could not defeat Sugriva.  Then hewanted to use his illusory energy and he disappeared. When Sugrivarealised that now he is going to use his illusory energy to fight withhim, he jumped back to Ramacandra.

Rama was very upset with Sugriva.  He said, You should not act insuch hasty ways.  You should not act so irresponsibly.  You are theking.  What would have happened if you died.  Then our whole missionwould have been lost.  Because without a king you cannot fight abattle.  So this is the point, these monkeys are not ordinaryindividuals.  They all are different demigods who appeared as monkeysto confront Ravana.  So this is how monkeys were actually causing ahavoc to Ravana.

Anyway, at the end of the battle all the big generals were dead,Indrajit was dead.  Before that Kumbakarna was dead. Finally Indrajitis dead.
When Indrajit died, Ravana became completely worried. Because he hadhis confidence that the monkeys will not be able to defeat him with thehelp of these two human beings. But Indrajit, who defeated even Indraand he tied him up with a special rope, the brahmastra. He used thebrahmastra as a rope and he brought Indra to Lanka. And it is due toBrahma’s request that he released Indra. And he was so powerful and nowhe is dead.

Finally Ravana came to fight himself on the battlefield.  Ravanaappeared in the battlefield riding on his chariot.  And Lord Ramacandrawas fighting against Ravana, just standing on the ground on his foot,on his legs.  Indra felt that is unfair.  Ravana is fighting on hischariot and Rama is fighting, standing on his feet, like a footsoldier.  So, he immediately sent his chariot and his driver Mathali.Mathali appeared and said that Indra has sent this chariot to fightagainst Ravana.  Rama accepted that gift of Indra. He got into thechariot and started to fight against Ravana.  And Ravana tried to cutthe flag of Indra’s chariot.  But before the arrow could reach theshaft of the chariot, Rama released an arrow and deflected that arrowof Ravana.  Ravana tried to kill the horses of Indra’s chariot.  Heshoot many, many arrows to the horses, but nothing happened to thesecelestial horses. They are totally unaffected.

In this way the fight ensued.  Ravana was releasing so many arrows. Ramacandra was being hit by some arrows but most of them Rama actuallydeflected them with his own arrows.  Finally, when Ravana saw that hecannot compete with Rama in this fair battle, front battle, he tookshelter of his mystic power and he made all kinds of weapons, all kindsof mountain tops,   mountain peaks and bolders fell on Rama but Ramawith his arrows shattered them all to pieces.  And this battle was soexciting that all the demigods appeared on the sky, the sages appearedon the sky, the Gandharvas, Kindharas, the Siddhas and Caranas they allcrowded, crowded on the sky and they were spell bound, they werestunned seeing this fight.  And when the fight was going on in thisway, Rama was releasing his arrows and those arrows were cuttingRavana’s heads but as soon as the head would fall on the ground, itwould again come back, an other head would appear.  In this way Ramacut hundreds of Ravana’s heads. But Ravanas heads were all intact. Sometimes Ravana was fighting with ten heads, sometimes Ravana wasfighting with one head, assuming his normal form. But Rama was findingit very difficult.

So at that time Mathali, Indra’s chariot driver, told Him,“Ramacandra, why are you fighting just on your defense? Kill thatperson! Use Brahmastra! You have the Brahmastra, so why aren’t Youusing that?” So then Rama took the Brahmastra which He received fromAgastya Muni. When He was in Dandakaranya Agastya gave Him thisBrahmastra. This Brahmastra, the feather of this arrow, was made withthe feathers of Garuda. The tip of that arrow was empowered with thepotency of Agni and Surya, the Fire god and Sun god. The Meru mountaincaused the gravity of that arrow. The potency of the Meru mountain wasinvested in that arrow to create the gravity or the weight. And theshaft of that arrow was created by etheral element. So that is howBrahmastra has been described.

So Rama just placed that arrow on His bow. And in the mean time allinauspicious signs began to appear. From nowhere the clouds started topour blood on Ravana and the vultures were following Ravana frombehind. And jackals started to howl. And Ravana, seeing thatinauspicious sign, could recognize the time has come for him to die.And in the mean time when Rama placed the arrow all the monkeys becameexcited, all the demigods became excited that now this demon is goingto meet his end. Whereas all the Rakshasas they started to shake withfear, tremble with fear. So Rama placed the arrow on His bow and thenHe released that arrow. It just went straight on to Ravana’s heart andthe nectar that was there, it dried up the nectar and went straightdown to the centre of the earth, centre of the earth, and then fromthere it came back to Lord Ramacandra’s quiver.

Ravana’s body fell dead on the ground. So seeing that all theRakshasas started to flee, and all the monkeys began to rejoice.Ravana’s chief wives came, headed by Mandodari. Mandodari was crying,“My Lord, why didn’t you listen to the advice of all your well wishers?They all told you to return the wife of Rama. If you did that, thenprobably we could have enjoyed your association for many, many moreyears to come. But just because of your arrogance, that you wouldn’tlisten to anybody, you are now lying dead on the ground.”

Ramacandra asked Vibhishana to do the final rites, the cremation ofRavana. Vibhishana refused. He said that, “I don’t want to perform thecremation of a sinner like him, who stole so many people’s wives andtook Your eternal consort away from You. I am not going to perform hisfuneral.” Ramacandra told him that, “Now that he is dead, all thoseanimosity should be over. You are the only one remaining in the familyto perform his funeral, because all his sons are dead. Not a singlemember of the family is surviving except for you.” So finally, onRama’s instruction Vibhishana performed Ravana’s funeral and thenRamacandra coronated Visbhishana on the throne of Lanka.

Then Sita was brought, but Rama, Sita was waiting just to see Rama,but Sita was surprised the way Rama wanted Her to come to Him. She hadto walk like an ordinary woman, and She was wondering, She was askingHanuman, “Why is He treating Me like this? I have undergone so muchtrials and tribulations because of Him. I was waiting for this day andnow the time has come, He killed Ravana, He wants Me to be in this way,come to Him in this way, as an ordinary woman.” And then, when Shecame, Ramacandra declared that She’ll have to prove Her purity. Sitawas, although heart-broken, She was prepared. But at the same time herheart was completely shattered that why Rama was treating Her like that?

Lord Shiva and Brahma appeared and told Rama, “Rama, why are Youtreating Sita, Your eternal consort in this way?” Then Ramacandra saidthat, “I am a king and I have to prove my sanctity as well as thesanctity of My wife to My citizens. And that’s why, before accepting, Iwant Her to go through this test.” Although Lord Brahma and Lord Shivavouched for Sita’s purity, but still Ramachandra would not listen tothem. At that time Brahma actually told Him, “Rama, You forgot who Youare! While You are playing the role of a human being,  You forgot thatYou are the Supreme Personality of Godhead! You’re behaving just likean ordinary human being.” And finally they admitted that, “I know thatthis is Your pastimes and You are playing the role in the most perfectway.”

And Sita entered into the fire, at that time Agnideva appeared,Sungod appeared. I’m sorry, Firegod appeared and told Rama, Sita ispure. Of course, there is another angle to this incidence. When Ravanacame to steal Sita, Sita took shelter of Agni, because it is a customthat in the house they always have a flame burning. So even in thecottage of Lord Ramacandra this flame was burning, so Sita, finding noone there to take shelter of, took shelter of Agnideva. And Agnidevaactually took Sita away and placed a Maya Sita in Her place, or a MayaSita appeared in Her place.

So Ravana didn’t steal Sita. What to speak of steal Sita, Ravanacannot even touch Sita devi. Who actually he stole, was Maya Sita,which has been very wonderfully revealed by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu,this fact. So Ravana then, I am sorry, Agnideva brought that originalSita to Lord Ramachandra. So when Sita went through this apparent firetest, the Maya Sita disappeared and original Sita appeared. So in thisway, original Sita appeared, the eternal consort of the Lord, and as Imentioned earlier, then they decided to go to Ayodhya, because fourteenyears period was over. But Vibhishana requested Rama to stay in Lankafor a little longer. So Rama complied to Vibhishana’s request and Hestayed in Lanka for some time. Then finally they decided to go toAyodhya. Vibhishana gave them, gave Ramachandra the Pushpaka chariotand Ramachandra…

Oh, in the meantime another thing happened. Soon after this battlewas over, along with demigods, Indra came. And Indra said, “LordRamacandra, although I know who You are, but still when I come, I grantsome boon to whoever sees me. So please ask for a boon.” So LordRamacandra said, “Let all the monkeys come back to life. And whereverthese monkeys reside, all the trees become filled with fruits for theirpleasure.” Indra said, “Although it is a very, very difficult boon tofulfill, I will do it by Your mercy.” [laughter] And this is how allthe monkeys, those who died in the battle, fighting on behalf of LordRamacandra came back to life. So this is how we see, that when we sidewith the Supreme Personality of Godhead and no matter how difficult thetask is, ultimately we become not only victorious but we, even if wedie in that battle, we regain our life.

Hare Krishna! Sri Ramachandra ki jaya! Sri Rama Vijayotsava ki jaya!Vijaya Dasami Mahotsava ki jaya! Jagad Guru Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!Sri Sri Gaura Nitai ki jaya! Sri Sri Radha Rasabihari ki jaya! Sri SriSita Rama Lakshmana Hanumana ki jaya! Gaura Premanande Hari Haribol!All glories to the assembled devotees! [Hare Krishna] All glories toSri Guru and Sri Gauranga! All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Namo Om Visnu Padaya Krishna Presthaya Bhutale Srimate Bhaktivedanta Swamin Iti Namine

Namaste Saraswate Deve Gaura Vani Pracharine Nirvisesa Sunyavadi Paschatya Desa Tarine